Re: [PATCH] 260: Add another corner case where length is zero

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On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Dave Chinner wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 06:40:19 +1100
> From: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] 260: Add another corner case where length is zero
> 
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 02:16:52PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> > This commit adds another corner case to test FITRIM argument handling.
> > In this case we set length to zero and we expect the number of discarded
> > bytes to be obviously zero, however we've had bug in both ext4 and xfs
> > where the internal variable would underflow. This test case will be able
> > to catch that in future.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'd create another test for this, rather than making 260 suddenly
> fail for everyone....

Hmm, I am not sure what is the point. I've created 260 exactly for
this reason of testing FITRIM argument handling and it already
contains number of tests like this one. I am not strongly against
having this in separate test, however it seems rather unnecessary to
me.

Thanks!
-Lukas

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.
> 

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